Performance comparison of algorithms for blind reverberation time estimation from speech

International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gaubitch, N D ^a   Lollmann H W ^b   Jeub, M ^b   Falk, T H ^c   Naylor, P A ^a   Vary, P ^b   Brookes, M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blind estimation; Reverberation time

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMPULSE RESPONSE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC IMPULSE RESPONSE; ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; BLIND ESTIMATIONS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; REVERBERATION TIME; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 84957670916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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